Race in America: Sylvia Waters & Jamila Wignot explore the legacy of Alvin Ailey

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The history of legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey is captured in the new documentary, “Ailey.” Director Jamila Wignot and Sylvia Waters, one of Ailey’s former principal dancers, explore Ailey’s legacy of telling the Black American story through dance .